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Ken Freeman Discusses Plans to Integrate AML and Unilab
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 6 – April 22, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Once again, Ken Freeman and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is altering the national market for clinical laboratory testing. By acquiring American Medical Laboratories and Unilab, the nation’s largest lab company is expanding its presence in California, Nevada, and Washingto…
Provider Performance Ranking Now Hitting Healthcare System
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 2 – January 28, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: When 96 big corporations, employing 28 million people and spending $52 billion on healthcare, begin publishing hospital performance measurements so their employees can make informed choices, that’s big news! THE DARK REPORT predicts this is a major step toward detailed meas…
Blood Bankers In USA Swamped by Public Help
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 13 – September 24, 2001 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Even as news of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the subsequent collapse of the buildings was captured on national television, people began arriving at blood collection sites to donate blood. It was a growing tidal wave of volunteer blood donors, as their n…
Analysis of Lab Testing Market Reveals Competitive Shifts
CEO SUMMARY: Even as public lab and anatomic pathology companies enjoy sustained growth in specimen volumes and revenues, fundamental shifts in the basic marketplace have changed the competitive environment. Surprisingly, the most open market segment is anatomic pathology specimens referr…
Unilab Files Registration For IPO of $115 Million
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 7 – May 21, 2001 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: During the 1990s, Unilab used the twin strategies of lab acquisitions and aggressive sales and marketing to fuel rapid growth in specimen volumes and net revenues. However, California’s ultra-competitive managed care market and severe financial problems during the latter ha…
Year’s Ten Biggest Stories Reveal Modest Changes
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 17 – December 4, 2000 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In many ways, 2000 was a relatively quiet year for laboratory organizations. This list of the ten biggest stories in the lab industry for 2000 demonstrates that the most innovative laboratory organizations in the United States are “raising the bar” for service and quality…
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Embraces New Testing Technology
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 17 – December 4, 2000 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Despite a decade of consolidation, competition among the world’s largest diagnostics manufacturers remains intense. In response to this competition, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) is preparing a variety of new products and services for its clinical laboratory customers. I…
Cheerios® Teaching Consumers Facts About Laboratory Testing
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 16 – November 13, 2000 Issue
FOR YEARS, BOTH HOSPITAL LABS and independent commercial labs considered physicians and payers to be the primary customers for lab testing. The lab testing needs of patients as customers seldom came up when lab managers discussed how to organize and deliver their lab’s testing services. In fact, m…
Piper Jaffray Illustrates “New” Paradigm for Role of Lab Tests
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 14 – October 2, 2000 Issue
WHEN FINANCIAL ANALYST William B. Bonello issued his overview report on the diagnostic services industry last week, little did he know that one element of his report would prove an instant hit with lab industry executives. During the U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray conference la…
Luminex Raises $83 Mil In Public Stock Offering
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 7 – May 8, 2000 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: During the past year, Luminex Corporation moved swiftly to push its LabMAP™ multiplex testing technology into the bioassay marketplace. It found high interest among companies in the pharmaceutical, diagnostics, and bioresearch industries. Luminex executives say that a numbe…
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